Occupation: Former Chancellor Of Germany Birth: April 20, 1889 Death: April 30, 1945
Neutrals and lukewarms do not make history..
That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy, obligated and b….
In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an inst….
The sportive, knightly battle awakens the best human characteristics. It doesn't separate, but unites the combatants in understanding and respect. He….
Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany.
The majority can never replace the man.
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force..
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed..
The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down..
Great liars are also great magicians..
If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error of the pre-War perio….
Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken..
Die breite Masse einesVolkes?einer groÞen Lu« ge leichter zum Opfer f a« llt als einer kleinen. The broad mass of a nation?will more easily fall vic….
...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion..
The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity ….
We are a people of different faiths, but we are one. Which faith conquers the other is not the question; rather, the question is whether Christianity….
The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life..
Paris must either not fall into the hands of the enemy or the enemy must find it only a wasteland..
Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man….
Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation..
Germany has solemnly recognized and guaranteed France her frontiers as determined after the Saar plebiscite... We thereby finally renounced all claim….